Students will sing How Do the Animals Move? They will discuss and demonstrate how animals move. The students will play a freeze game as they perform the song.
Students will define "ostinato." They will listen to Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and identify words that are repeated. They will use these words to compose an ostinato. They will perform the ostinato with the song.
Students will perform a new version of Little Miss Muffet. They will do body percussion and play percussion instruments.
This resource is a five-day plan to introduce and practice quarter rest. Day 1 prepares quarter rest through singing Eating Muffins. Students will practice quarter notes and eighth notes on Day 2. Day 3, they will decode the quarter rest. They will practice reading the quarter notes, quarter rest, and eighth notes on Days 4 and 5.
This novice low German activity allows students to practice their listening skills as well as the German alphabet. Students will listen to an audio file that spells out 6 different names in German. Students can complete this activity individually by entering their answers on the site or teachers can download the file to play the activity offline in class. Those who complete the activity online will be able to check their work using the automatic grading feature.
This novice low to novice mid activity introduces German students to children's counting rhymes. Students listen to four different audio files. As they do, they fill in the missing words in the accompanying cloze activity. Once finished students are able to check their work automatically. Teachers can also choose to download the file so that the activity can be completed offline or in class as a whole. To achieve presentational speaking standards students can recite their favorite rhyme.
This novice low activity is a great introduction to ASL for elementary-aged students. The original lesson plan was created for enhancing reading comprehension in regular classroom settings. However, this approach is a perfect way to connect ASL with Language Arts standards. There are eight vocabulary words that appear in the humorous book Sam's Sandwich, all of which students learn to sign in American Sign Language. The signs are first taught and then the students sign the vocabulary words each time they hear them in the text. Extension activities encourage students to learn more vocabulary words in ASL. Note: Teachers will need access to a copy of Sam's Sandwich by David Pehlam (Dutton Juvenile Publishers, 1991).
This online version of Suduko, the popular numbers game, provides a way for novice low German students to learn their numbers while practicing basic math skills. Instead of filling in the boxes with numerical characters, students are asked to write out the numbers needed to complete each puzzle square. The numbers that are pre-printed in the puzzle are also written out allowing students to easily memorize basic German numbers 1-9. Students can choose to play online or the teacher can print the screen to allow students to complete the activity offline.
This novice mid to novice high activity allows students to practice their Spanish numbers as well as adjectives while participating in a simulated auction. Students will use descriptive adjectives to persuade others to buy a product and make deals with others when purchasing their own items. Students will use numbers to bid on items and purchase them through an auction using provided fake money. There is a provided slide show that walks students through a pre-activity and post-activity as well as helping students connect this activity with "can do" statements.
This novice-mid to novice-high Spanish activity walks students through the questions needed to plan an imaginary trip using a travel agent. Students will learn words related to traveling as they practice speaking with each other about planning a vacation. Throughout the activity, students will be acting as travel agents and vacationers, switching roles. Each role will be given a pre-printed card to keep them on task and focused. One of the travelers will have to “plan a vacation” with the travel agent using the specifications of their traveler card. The travel agent will have to choose the best place (from the options on the travel agent cards) that fits the traveler's needs. Once the travel agent offers a “plan” to the traveler, the traveler will become the travel agent, and they will “plan” another vacation. Students will wrap up the activity with a provided reflection questionnaire.
In this novice-mid Spanish activity, students work in pairs to practice interpersonal conversation skills. Students are paired together and one student uses a pre-printed question card to ask questions of the other student. The responding students must spend three minutes answering the questions. The goal is to add in as many details as possible and to avoid one-word answers. After three minutes, the roles are reversed. Students will then change cards so that they discuss another topic with another student. The topics covered in this review are common level 1 topics: Vacation, Family & School. (The school questions can be adapted to apply to your specific school as needed.)
In this novice-mid to novice-high Spanish activity, students will learn and practice the art of bartering for items. Students will participate in a simulated market using fake money to purchase items that are needed to meet a specific list of items. This link provides printouts of items to shop for as well as funny money that can be used in the bartering process. A slide show presentation walks students through the cultural idea of bartering and introduces them to some of the key vocabulary words they will need to complete this simulation.
In this novice-mid to novice-high Spanish activity, students practice creating questions and interviewing classmates on the topics of health, food, and celebrations. Students are provided a series of prepared interview cards. Each card represents a different topic. Students are asked to use the questions to carry on a three-minute interpersonal conversation. The students then reverse roles. After 6 minutes students will change interview cards and topics. A provided Google slide show offers reflection questions for students to discuss after finishing the activity.
Many students are familiar with the popular game Taboo. This resource allows novice high to intermediate low Spanish students the opportunity to practice vocabulary while playing this game. The linked cards specifically review vocabulary associated with nationalities and other countries. Students are asked to draw a card and describe the featured nationality or nation posted on the card without using the prohibited words. Each classmate that guesses correctly gets a point. However, if the speaker uses one of the prohibited words then they lose a point.
The linked resource is a set of 28, full-color, printable animal cards that are perfect for a variety of Spanish learners. Each card features a full-color animal image along with the Spanish name for the featured animal. These cards include animals from the following ecosystems: Desert, Rain Forest, Ocean, and the Arctic. These animal cards can be used with novice low learners but the animals featured are those that upper-level students are more likely to encounter during environmental units (intermediate proficiency levels). Lower levels can use the cards to help students identify the words associated with each animal. Intermediate levels can have students each hold up a card and ask questions to a partner about the animal and the ecosystem it belongs to.
This intermediate-mid to intermediate-high Spanish activity encourages students to participate in active discussions about environmental issues. The linked resource provides warm-up questions to encourage class discussion. For the principal activity, the teacher reads one of the provided opinion statements. (The opinion cards are created via Canva, a free account is required to edit the cards but teachers can access the original cards without an account.) After reading the printed opinion, students hold up one of three provided response cards showing whether they agree, disagree, or do not have an opinion about the statement. Then, students must provide an explanation or reason to back up their stance on the issue, simulating real-life conversations they may have in the target language.
This intermediate-mid to intermediate-high Spanish activity encourages students to report on current events. The activity starts by reviewing key vocabulary words by playing a game in which students describe a word to see if their classmates can guess what they are describing. A set of cards with full-color photos are included to illustrate each current event-related vocabulary word. Then, students are given a pre-printed current event card and are asked to summarize the event for their peers. There are 4 events included but this could easily be completed by having students each explore the internet to find authentic websites of current events in order to report on the most recent events.
This intermediate-low to intermediate-high Spanish activity encourages students to push their vocabulary skills to the next level. Students play an interactive game in which they draw one of 30 topics and then spend 90 seconds writing down as many adjectives that they can associate with this topic. After 90 seconds, students compare notes. Students only receive points if no one else has a specific word. (Similar to the scoring in the game Scattergories.) If a word is duplicated in the classroom then no one gets the point for that word. This encourages students to recall less common words, a skill that will assist in improving their overall speaking and writing skills.
This intermediate mid to intermediate high Spanish activity encourages students to create a storyline of their own that could be turned into a television series. A google slideshow includes warm-up and post activity questions to assist in starting and ending the activity with a classroom discussion. For the key activity, students are asked to draw specific vocabulary words and then incorporate these words into the storyline for a new television series. Each student in the group has a specific role to ensure that a creative story is developed. Once finished they can pitch their show idea to their classmates. As an extension, they can create a commercial to share with their classmates. Teachers can easily connect this to any current thematic unit by changing the words students must choose from to reflect the vocabulary they are focusing on in class.
In this intermediate mid to intermediate high Spanish lesson, students focus on persuasive and formal speaking to apply for a job. Students start by examining examples of employment applications from Argentina and the United States. Students then watch a target language tutorial that teaches them how to make themselves stand out among other applicants by using a strategy known as an elevator pitch. Students then work to prepare pitches of their own and interview each other using the provided interview questions. This formal, interpersonal conversation allows upper level students to simulate conversations that would take place in the real world.
This intermediate low to intermediate mid Spanish activity focuses on enhancing conversational skills while using city/town vocabulary. A provided slide show starts off by introducing the can do statements for this activity. Students then play a game of chutes and ladders in pairs. A link to a printable game board is included. When a student lands on a blank space, he or she must grab a prompt card and answer the question or do the prompt. If a student lands on a space with a star, he or she must answer one of the trivia questions. Each of the questions references vocabulary needed to describe things around town. The provided questions use multiple tenses but teachers can adjust the questions for lower level learners if needed.
This novice-high to intermediate-low Spanish activity introduces students to cultural aspects of shopping in Spanish-speaking countries. At the start of the lesson students are given an opportunity to compare the way prices are written in the US as well as in Spanish countries, particularly paying attention to the use of the comma and the period in each. Then, students simulate shopping by using prepared shopping lists and online websites to access prices. Half the students act as shop owners or employees of a grocery store using online advertisements. The other half of the students have a grocery list and must "shop" for the specific item, asking each store employee the cost to locate the best price. Conversations between merchants and shoppers should be conducted in the target language, paying special attention to the numbers used in providing the prices.
This novice-mid to novice-high French activity allows students to review material learned in lower-level French classes. This is an interactive Jeopardy board that can be played on the linked site or can be downloaded or embedded where needed. Students can select how many teams will play. The categories in this game include Vocabulary, Perfect Tense, Indirect Objects, Demonstrative Adjectives, and Cultural Facts. This would be useful in preparation for a semester exam or at the start of the following school year to review earlier vocabulary.
In this novice-high to intermediate-low French activity, students will learn to give and follow commands as they use mass transit maps to get from one place to another. With a partner, they will choose from the provided city maps and figure out how to get from point A to point B using the best option for public transportation (bus, metro, train, ferry, walk). Students will then take turns presenting their routes and following the routes created by others showing that they can both give and follow directions/commands in the target language and simulate interactions that are likely to happen in the target language.
In this novice-low to novice-mid French activity, students will practice their use of prepositions while also reinforcing vocabulary related to school items. Students start with a brief review of prepositional vocabulary and then play a game in which one student reads a series of pre-printed directions. Another student tries to draw items following the directions given to them. Students then lay out a variety of school supplies and take turns describing where the items are located in relation to each other using prepositional phrases.
This novice high to intermediate mid-French activity is perfect for second or third-year students returning to school after the summer. A slide show is provided to guide teachers and students through the activity. Students will start by sitting opposite each other and responding to discussion questions regarding their summer. After two minutes, they will change partners. Then students will use prepared question cards to discuss further summer activities with their peers. This activity will require students to practice using past tense as they answer the questions.
This intermediate low to intermediate mid-French activity is a perfect lesson to incorporate during the month of October. Using Halloween as a theme, students will practice with the conditional tense using a set of proposed, “Si ___ puis ___” . A slide presentation is included to introduce can-do statements for this activity and to guide the class through the different questions. The activity wraps up with an optional target language video about Halloween in Quebec. If you would like to use this activity during another time of the year, simply change the background of the slide show and omit the optional video.
In this intermediate low to intermediate-high French activity, students will brainstorm useful expressions for agreeing with, disagreeing with, and uncertainty about situations. Students will then practice using these expressions in conversation. All necessary resources are provided including a printable chart that offers a variety of idiomatic expressions that can be used to agree and disagree, printable statement cards and a slide show that guides the teacher and class through the activity. As students work, they will use presentational speaking skills to agree or disagree with target language statements that are provided on the statement cards.
This printable resource offers a visual reference for French students as they learn idiomatic expressions used to express agreement and disagreement. This resource can be printed individually for students or printed as a poster for teachers to use as a reference in the classroom. This resource will be particularly useful to intermediate low, mid, and high students as they work to vary their responses and enhance their vocabulary.
This novice mid to novice high French activity leads students through the process of inviting others to a variety of events. Then, they are challenged with the task of accepting or rejecting the invitations using the target language. A slide presentation is provided to guide the class through the activity. After a brief warm-up that reviews necessary vocabulary, students are given 5 minutes to plan a fun activity using a set of provided activity cards as a guide. They will then take turns sharing their written invitations and have students verbally accept or reject each invite using the targeted vocabulary.
This novice mid to novice high French activity allows students to review and use food vocabulary. The warm-up activity requires students to match food items with printed sentences describing each photo. These photos and sentences cards are provided in the resource. Students are then asked to plan two days' worth of meals. On day one they are to select and describe home-cooked meals and on day two they are to select restaurant meals. After creating their meal plans, students ask each other about the meals they have chosen using interpersonal speaking skills.
This printable map illustrates the numbered arrondissements in Paris. The pdf can be printed individually for students or enlarged to create a poster to hang in the room. It is a great tool for novice French learners as they learn numbers as well as the key landmarks throughout Paris. A suggested activity is to have students work in pairs. One student asks where is a certain landmark. The second student replies with the correct number of the arrondissement.
This novice low to novice mid French activity includes 2 interactive games that review vocabulary related to school supplies. First a Kahoot game is prepared allowing students to use their phones, ipads, chromebooks or other devices to play against each other in the classroom to see who can identify each classroom item the fastest. In the second game, the teacher uses a prepared slide presentation to show pictures of individual items. Students look through their own personal belongings to see if they can locate the item. The first person to locate and correctly provide the French name for the item gets the point.
This novice low French activity guides students through a series of greetings and introductions. Students start with a warm up that asks them to create a conversation using a series of pre-printed cards. Once students decide the correct order of the cards they are to act out the conversation presented on the cards. Students are then asked to each select a card that identifies the role they will play in the activity. Pretending to be the person on the card, students will move around the room introducing themselves and greeting others. Students are also given the opportunity to select a 'time of day' card to indicate whether the conversation should take place in the morning, noon, or evening. This allows students to vary their conversations as they move around the room. As an extension activity, teachers can demonstrate proper gestures used in greetings and have students include these in their conversations.
This novice low French activity provides a fun way to practice pronunciation of French sounds. As a warm up, teachers use a series of pre-printed cards as they model the pronunciation of each word and sound. Students are to repeat the words. Then, teachers lead students through reciting a variety of tongue twisters, focusing on specific pronunciation sounds. Six different tongue twister cards are provided. The teacher can lead the class through each one or have students work in pairs to practice the phrases, paying special attention to the phonetic sounds made by the French alphabet.
